Hey everyone. My mom has recently been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Her doctors have put her on various medicines which she says seem to help for a few days, but then end up "doing more harm than good". She says although the pain in her knees are reduced, her hands/forearmes and feet swell quite a bit. She says her hands hurt more now that she's been on the medicine and feel numb sometimes as well.

She's afraid that it is because she is allergic to sulfa. However, the doctors keep prescribing her drugs containing this and when she tells them they say that it probably won't cause any problems. Yet it seems that she may be having an allergic reaction to these drugs.

I have looked online and I do see many drugs for rheumatoid arthrisis which warn agains use if the patient is allergic to sulfa. Does anyone know of any drugs that are definately ok for sulfa-allergic patients?

Thanks